[Pythonmac-SIG] trouble making a standalone app with Python 2.4

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 23, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> I probably won't be able to look at this until tomorrow, but try 
>> comparing sys.modules.keys() between your environment with py2app -A 
>> and py2app.
>
> in getRunLoop, I added print sys.modules.keys() and then ran the Web 
> Services Tool with and without -A.
>
> Without -A (normal standalone app), the following had been imported. 
> They were not imported with -A:
> 'AppKit.imp',
> 'AppKit.os',
> 'AppKit.sys',
> 'Foundation.imp',
> 'objc.imp',
> 'objc.sys',
> 'twisted.internet.imp',
> 'twisted.protocols.cStringIO',
> 'twisted.protocols.imp',
> 'twisted.protocols.os',
> 'zlib',
> 'zope.interface.imp',
> 'zope.interface.os',
>
> I'm guessing that the "imp"s here are probably something special and 
> automatic that py2app does.

Looks more like a "special and automatic" bug to me ;)  It's probably 
something I inherited from looking at py2exe's source.  I plan on 
rewriting the way that the module system works as soon as the Python 
Egg runtime is farther along.

> Probably more relevant is the list of things that were imported with 
> -A, but not without:
> 'Carbon.CF',
> 'Carbon._CF',
> '_CF',
>
> Seeing this, I added an explicit import for these in one of my 
> modules. And it worked! Your intuition about the WebKit problem may 
> have been on track. Just as with that case, these imports were 
> ultimately getting called from within a block. Putting them at the 
> module level fixed it.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion of looking at sys.modules! I don't think 
> that I was an avenue I would have gone down.

I'll try and remember to patch Twisted so that this won't happen when I 
get the chance..

-bob